ANTIQUE – Soon, Antiqueños – especially seafarers, fishing boat owners and operators – with transactions at the Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) need not go to Iloilo City where the agency’s regional office is located.
MARINA plans to open a satellite office in San Jose de Buenavista town.
On Aug. 3, MARINA Region 6 director Annabell Lagas discussed with Mayor Elmer Untaran its plan that would save Antiqueños fron the inconvenience of having to travel for long hours and spending much on bus fare.
MARINA is a government agency under the Department of Transportation responsible for integrating the development, promotion and regulation of the maritime industry.
It has jurisdiction over the development, promotion and regulation of all enterprises engaged in the business of designing, constructing, manufacturing, acquiring, operating, supplying, repairing, and/or maintaining vessels, or component parts thereof, of managing and/or operating shipping lines, shipyards, drydocks, marine railways, marine repair ships, shipping and freight forwarding agencies and similar enterprises.
Untaran welcomed MARINA’s plan to have a satellite office in San Jose de Buenavista.
He offered to MARINA the office space at the Pawikan Center in Barangay Funda-Dalipe for the agency’s satellite office.
MARINA can use the office space for free, said Untaran.
The municipal government of San Jose, he added, is also willing to augment MARINA’s personnel for the proposed satellite office./PN
